21 results — topic: Water Resources

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Total dissolved-solid loads in the Upper Colorado River Basin during high-flow hydrologic events from 2021 to 2023

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release contains data that allows for calculation of total dissolved-solid loads for high-flow and baseflow conditions in the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) collected between 2021 and 2023. High-flow hydrologic events are critical periods for salinity trans

Destry N DiViesti, Casey Root, Scott A Hynek2026DOI: 10.5066/p1hc6ocb
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Total dissolved-solid loads in the Upper Colorado River Basin during high-flow hydrologic events from 2021 to 2023

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release contains data that allows for calculation of total dissolved-solid loads for high-flow and baseflow conditions in the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) collected between 2021 and 2023. High-flow hydrologic events are critical periods for salinity trans

Destry N DiViesti, Casey Root, Scott A Hynek2026DOI: 10.5066/p1hc6ocb
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Passive and Active Seismic Data Collected Near Beaver Pond Locations in Storrs, CT; Willington, CT; and Gunnison County, CO in 2025

This data release documents seismic data collected immediately adjacent to beaver ponds and in their surrounding floodplain environments using active and passive seismic measurements at three sites. These sites are located in the University of Connecticut (UConn) Forest in Storrs, Connecticut; Fento

Annie E Tucker, Yeonju Kim, Lijing Wang2026DOI: 10.5066/p1lgt6kx
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Unoccupied Aerial System-mounted image velocimetry and Doppler velocity radar data for computation of river velocity and discharge collected at seven locations in Colorado in 2023: Discharge Measurements

This child item contains the raw acoustic Doppler velocity profiler (ADCP) measurements collected by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) hydrographers at each site to validate Image and Radar velocimetry results. The discharge measurements were collected as part of routine and standard streamflow gaging d

Frank L Engel2024
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Unoccupied Aerial System-mounted image velocimetry and Doppler velocity radar data for computation of river velocity and discharge collected at seven locations in Colorado in 2023: Cross-Section Geometry

This child item contains bathymetric measurements of the channel geometry suitable for use in computing cross-sectional area for each field site. Each field site is abbreviated in various files in this data release. File and folder names quickly identify which site a particular file or dataset repre

Frank L Engel2024
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Unoccupied Aerial System-mounted image velocimetry and Doppler velocity radar data for computation of river velocity and discharge collected at seven locations in Colorado in 2023: Videos

This child item contains the raw videos captured by small Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (sUAS) at each field site. It also includes a summary file with metadata for each video. Each field site is abbreviated in various files in this data release. File and folder names quickly identify which site a par

Frank L Engel2024
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Unoccupied Aerial System-mounted image velocimetry and Doppler velocity radar data for computation of river velocity and discharge collected at seven locations in Colorado in 2023: Ground Control

This child item contains information about associating the calibration images and video to real-world distances using ground control points for each field site. The data included here can be used to provide a pixel ground scale distance for each video. Each field site is abbreviated in various files

Frank L Engel2024
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Unoccupied Aerial System-mounted image velocimetry and Doppler velocity radar data for computation of river velocity and discharge collected at seven locations in Colorado in 2023: Radar Spectra

This child item contains Doppler radar velocimetry spectra measurements for each field site where the radars were deployed. Each field site is abbreviated in various files in this data release. File and folder names quickly identify which site a particular file or dataset represents. The following a

Frank L Engel2024
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Unoccupied Aerial System-mounted image velocimetry and Doppler velocity radar data for computation of river velocity and discharge collected at seven locations in Colorado in 2023 (ver. 2.0, February 2026)

A series of field measurements of surface water velocity derived from video and Doppler velocity radar collected by small unoccupied aircraft systems (sUAS) and portable sensors were collected at seven locations in Colorado, USA, during the summer of 2023. The measurements were utilized to compute s

Frank Engel, John W Fulton, Carl J Legleiter2024DOI: 10.5066/p9doxmw3
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Unoccupied Aerial System-mounted image velocimetry and Doppler velocity radar data for computation of river velocity and discharge collected at seven locations in Colorado in 2023: Cross-Section Geometry

This child item contains bathymetric measurements of the channel geometry suitable for use in computing cross-sectional area for each field site. Each field site is abbreviated in various files in this data release. File and folder names quickly identify which site a particular file or dataset repre

Frank L Engel2024
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Unoccupied Aerial System-mounted image velocimetry and Doppler velocity radar data for computation of river velocity and discharge collected at seven locations in Colorado in 2023: Discharge Measurements

This child item contains the raw acoustic Doppler velocity profiler (ADCP) measurements collected by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) hydrographers at each site to validate Image and Radar velocimetry results. The discharge measurements were collected as part of routine and standard streamflow gaging d

Frank L Engel2024
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Unoccupied Aerial System-mounted image velocimetry and Doppler velocity radar data for computation of river velocity and discharge collected at seven locations in Colorado in 2023: Videos

This child item contains the raw videos captured by small Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (sUAS) at each field site. It also includes a summary file with metadata for each video. Each field site is abbreviated in various files in this data release. File and folder names quickly identify which site a par

Frank L Engel2024
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Unoccupied Aerial System-mounted image velocimetry and Doppler velocity radar data for computation of river velocity and discharge collected at seven locations in Colorado in 2023: Ground Control

This child item contains information about associating the calibration images and video to real-world distances using ground control points for each field site. The data included here can be used to provide a pixel ground scale distance for each video. Each field site is abbreviated in various files

Frank L Engel2024
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Unoccupied Aerial System-mounted image velocimetry and Doppler velocity radar data for computation of river velocity and discharge collected at seven locations in Colorado in 2023: Radar Spectra

This child item contains Doppler radar velocimetry spectra measurements for each field site where the radars were deployed. Each field site is abbreviated in various files in this data release. File and folder names quickly identify which site a particular file or dataset represents. The following a

Frank L Engel2024
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Unoccupied Aerial System-mounted image velocimetry and Doppler velocity radar data for computation of river velocity and discharge collected at seven locations in Colorado in 2023 (ver. 2.0, February 2026)

A series of field measurements of surface water velocity derived from video and Doppler velocity radar collected by small unoccupied aircraft systems (sUAS) and portable sensors were collected at seven locations in Colorado, USA, during the summer of 2023. The measurements were utilized to compute s

Frank Engel, John W Fulton, Carl J Legleiter2024DOI: 10.5066/p9doxmw3
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Upper Colorado River Basin: Monitoring sites and water chemistry data used to develop a specific conductance - salinity proxy model

Salinity levels in streams and tributaries of the Colorado River Basin have been a major concern for years. Recently, the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS) program expanded stream monitoring networks including the number of sites where continuous

R Blaine McCleskey2024
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Humpback chub (Gila cypha) capture histories and growth data for two areas in the Colorado River network from 2009-2022 and 2017-2022

These data were compiled for a manuscript entitled 'Vital rates of a burgeoning population of Humpback Chub in western Grand Canyon. Objective(s) of our study were to compare survival and growth of humpback chub in western Grand Canyon to that from the more established metapopulation in eastern Gran

Charles B Yackulic2023
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Surface electrical resistivity tomography, magnetic, and gravity surveys in Redwell Basin and the greater East River watershed near Crested Butte, Colorado, 2017

Surface electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), time-domain electromagnetics (TEM), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), magnetics, and gravity data were acquired in 2016, 2017 and 2018 in the greater East River Watershed near Crested Butte Colorado with a focused effort in Redwell Basin. Five ERT pro

Bethany L Burton2022
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Digital subsurface data of Paleozoic rocks in the Upper Colorado River Basin in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico from USGS Regional Aquifer System Analysis

The Upper Colorado River Basin has a drainage area of about 113,500 square miles in western Colorado, eastern Utah, southwestern Wyoming, northeastern Arizona, and northwestern New Mexico. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, the Upper Colorado River Basin was a study area under of the U.S. Geological Survey's

Donald Sweetkind2020
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Digital subsurface data of Paleozoic rocks in the Upper Colorado River Basin in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico from USGS Regional Aquifer System Analysis

The Upper Colorado River Basin has a drainage area of about 113,500 square miles in western Colorado, eastern Utah, southwestern Wyoming, northeastern Arizona, and northwestern New Mexico. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, the Upper Colorado River Basin was a study area under of the U.S. Geological Survey's

Donald Sweetkind2020